This comprehensively revised and greatly expanded new edition of A S Hornby's classic and highly acclaimed dictionary for students of English represents a major advance on earlier editions in terms of lexical coverage, ease of use, and the amount of information on meaning,
grammar and syntax it provides.
57100 words and phrases, over 4000 NEW to this edition
12720 idioms and phrasal verbs, fully cross-referenced and easy to find
81500 examples to illustrate usage and collocation, most of them NEW to this edition
All NEW illustrations, depicting 1820 items
200 NEW notes on usage, clarifying points of grammatical or semantic difficulty
3 NEW appendices, including a thematically-arranged illustrated appendix
2 NEW guides to using the dictionary: a short, essential introduction, and a detailed guide for the more confident user
NEW simpler verb classification scheme.